September exam

Remember your Art exam in September:

• 1st ESO and 4th ESO: September the 2nd, Friday 13:00-14:00 h.

No olvidéis las tres partes de la prueba de septiembre:

1. Examen excrito (en inglés para los de 1º de ESO).
2. Entregar los trabajos del verano.
3. Resolver la tarea propuesta en el blog: Guess who the author is.

These are copies of the instructions given to you in June:
EDUCACIÓN PLÁSTICA Y VISUAL_1eso_septiembre2011

EDUCACIÓN PLÁSTICA Y VISUAL_4eso_septiembre2011

If you have to take the exam in September... GUESS WHO THE AUTHOR IS

This will be your blog task for September (1st and 4th E.S.O.).
Have a look to these pictures and guess who the author is. Please add a comment with your answers in this post. You have to guess at least one of them.

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Image 4:

Color in Art

Color En El Arte

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Task:
Art strokes 2.0
We are going to practice what we have learnt about colour and mixtures.

We are going to copy some masterpieces from Pointillism, Impressionism and Expressionism. This time we will be using acrylic paint.

As it is going to be big format, we are going to work in a collaborative way: each masterpiece is going to be painted by four teams of three or four students from all 1st classrooms: 1ºA, 1ºB, 1ºCDadvanced and 1ºCDintermediate. Therefore, each masterpiece is going to be painted by at least a dozen of students.

Notice that you have to create similar textures by small and rapid brushstrokes of different tints, shades and hues.

Colour Wheel

Your task for these days: this is the color wheel template just in case you need a new copy.

COLOR WHEEL TEMPLATE

A piece of advice while working with templeras:

Textures in Art

Este trabajo se está realizando ahora mismo en la clase de EPV de 4º de ESO. Faltan aún 4 sesiones para su entrega final. Pero... promete.

UNIDAD DIDÁCTICA: LA TEXTURATEXTURAS

El vídeo resultante de esta unidad didáctica es:
(Es aún provisional, por eso no se ha cortado el archivo de audio al final, pues hay que insertar más fotografías de alumnos y sus trabajos finales).

The 3D truth in old masters. Homework for Easter

This is my online task for Easter.



Can you identify the pictures and its painters in this video?
Write a comment in this article and include one picture title, its author and your name and course. I will give you a positive mark.

TEXTURE

TACTILE TEXTURE:

• You have to creat a collection of textures using recycled white sheets of paper.
• 1st ESO: Applying your collection of textures on a free drawing.
• 4th ESO: Applying your collection of textures on famous artworks (in teams).

VISUAL TEXTURE:

• An exercise from your book: Create an abstract drawing using shapes and textures.

Art's Desire

This is my online task for next week (don't forget I will be watching you from London).



Can you identify the pictures and its painters in this video?
Write a comment in this article and include one picture title, its author and your name and course. I will give you a positive mark.

LINE

Visual Elements: LINE

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Os dejo la información de las tareas para la próxima semana (estaré en Londres con un grupo de 4º bilingüe) en castellano para que los grupos no bilingües puedan seguirlos con mayor facilidad:

A.- La línea configuradora de formas:

En un A4, inventa una forma y trabájala con líneas curvas como en el ejemplo siguiente:

Recordad las instrucciones que os di en clase: dibujad el contorno a lápiz y las líneas, que originarán las formas, a rotulador o bolígrafo, así se podrán borrar luego las líneas del contorno sin que el resto se pierda. Una buena noticia para vosotros: no tenéis que usar reglas para las líneas, se hacen a mano, así conseguiréis más expresividad.

Al hilo de este trabajo, y como curiosidad, acceder a esta otra tarea de alumnos de 1º de ESO, La línea y la almeja.

B.- La línea delimitadora de formas:
Mira este vídeo:



En un A4, traza dos líneas horizontales y trabaja sobre ellas dos dibujos al estilo de los mostrados en el vídeo. Cada uno de los dibujos debe poder ser trazado sin levantar el rotulador del papel para que sea una línea continua. Antes, puedes trazarlo a lápiz. Aquí tienes unos ejemplos:

 

How you are managing with Glogster

You and Glogster are getting on fantastically well!

Let's see some examples:
(Do not forget that they are audiovisual posters, so as I have embeded them, you can click on images, videos, graphics...).


By Bartos

By Javier and Patricia

By los que faltaban

By Hanin

By Raúl F.

By Sara and Iulia

By Samuel and Alfonso

Now, you will have to create your team final artwork based on your team handmade sketches and your team glogster tests.

Don't forget it has to include:

• The advertising campaign slogan.
• The travel agency's name.
• Your design team's name.
• Some pictures and/or background.
• Something in relation to travels for disabled people (in picture, pictogram or slogan).

A piece of advice:
If you want to use a pictogram for disabled people in Glogster, write in your computer search window PNG with the name of the images type you are looking for. You will get PNG files instead of JPG or BMP files, and therefore you will get pictogram files with a transparent background.

Brainstorming

Brainstorming =  Tormenta o lluvia de ideas

We are going to use this team-based creative thinking technique to make ideas come up:

• Name of your team.
• Name of the travel agency.
• Slogan of your ad.

Brainstorming

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What NOT TO DO while brainstorming:

Un viaje para tod@s

After the good results in our last contest, now we are going to participate in a new one:

Although I will give you all the instructions, you should visit the contest web: 27 concurso ONCE.

CATEGORÍAS C (1ºESO) Y D (4ºESO):

El trabajo consiste en la realización de un cartel publicitario para una agencia de viajes que oferte su mejor producto:

Un viaje para tod@s.

Es decir, aquel viaje que también tenga en cuenta las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad para acceder a él y disfrutarlo en igualdad de oportunidades.

I think the competition is a good opportunity to raise awareness of the limitations of some people and try to make things easier for them on the day to day. Besides, all of you will work in groups (sketches and final work, of course).

It will be a great idea if you visit a real travel agency to inspire you (Viajes acceSIbles, Cruceros sin barreras, AccesibleBarcelona, AdaptamosGroup) or have a look to images in Google in Spanish and in English.

Blind perspective, by Four Docs

This video illustrates the sounds that a blind person hears.

Link to last year ONCE contest. They had to design the cover of a book. You can see every work published in a huge mosaic and a video with a lot of images to inspire you:

"Un viaje para tod@s" task

So, your task will be an advertisment "paid by a travel agency" to persuade potential disabled persons to book a trip, travel, journey, tour, drive, cruise or whatever you can imagine. It will be interesting to read and watch the information I will give you about ADVERTISMENTS and PICTOGRAMS very soon.

Joaquín's Golf. Joaquin Rodrigo was a famous Spanish composer, who, despite becoming blind at the age of three, learned how to play the piano and violin with the help of Braille. But let's pretend that Joaquin liked to get out of the concert hall and play some golf - blindness didn't stop him from composing music, so why should it stop him from whacking a little white ball?.

VozMe. Write something into the box and click to generate an MP3 file. Listen. Do you know what this tool could be used for? 

Loquendo. I'm sure some of you have heard about Loquendo. But you were in a mistake. Try it here.
Computing for disabled people. Have a look to these tools I collected some years ago.

Practicing artistic styles

Task interpretating drawings

Task Interpretating a Picture

Besides, you have to explain your abstract pictures (of course in English): why you have used some colours, shapes, lines... what your intentions or your feelings are... You are the creator, so, explain your creation.

Let's make our self-portraits

There are many different ways to make a self-portrait. It has not to be a traditional drawing or painting of your face. 

Idea from: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/selfport.htm#Names

Making a self-portrait is a great way to express and explore your identity.
The idea is to do the silhouettes of your head and fill in your head with a magazine collage of what is going in your brain, what you prefer, what you are fond of...
Ideas to get you started: clothes, music, words, sports, food, people you admire, singers, actors...
Trace your head on two white papers (using the window). Then filled in the head shape with magazine images in one of the papers. The second one will be the template of the final frame of your self-portrait, so, you will have to cut out the inside part. Let's do it.

Bob Dylan, by CaliburlerSoul

Another way of making a portrait is using typography instead of traditional elements. Do you remember 45 amazing Type Faces- Typographic Portraits?. Really amazing! Le's make something similar with your pictures just writing your name (or your sign).

Much more ideas in http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/selfport.htm#Names.

Christmas Cards

You have to design a Christmas Card to be used in our Highschool.

And... you can win a prize (money, money, money...).

Paper: A4 folded, so, the picture will be an A5 format.
You can choose an horizontal or vertical orientation. Free technique.

You have to give it to me next Thursday 9th or Friday 10th. At least 1 unit.

Examples of hand-made Christmas Cards.
More ideas.

If you want to use your computer, do it. Some links to use:

• You can use Paint, Gimp, Photoshop, Photoscape...
• Christmas cards creator.
• Imprenta mágica.
• Christmas cards and more, step by step.
• Christmas cards. Templates.
• Free Christmas cards.

Soldier Kids Poster Contest

We are going to participate in a contest. So, our next task will be:

CONCURSO DE CARTELES: Niños-soldado (“Día mundial contra la utilización de los niños soldado”) Se convoca el I concurso de carteles en el ámbito de los derechos humanos y la promoción de los mismos, con el tema de los niños-soldado y para favorecer y ayudar a su completa erradicación, concienciando a los jóvenes escolares de su existencia. Participantes: Jóvenes escolarizados en Leganés. Se establecen tres categorías: A- Primer ciclo de ESO. B- Segundo ciclo de ESO. C- Bachillerato y ciclos formativos. Entrega de Trabajos: Máximo de dos trabajos por participante. Los trabajos se entregarán con los datos completos: nombre-apellidos, edad, teléfono, curso y centro. Estos datos aparecerán por detrás del cartel. Plazo de entrega: Hasta 13 de Enero Lugar de entrega: se entregarán en el IES al que pertenezca cada alumno. Exposición: Centro Cultural Saramago. Entrega de premios el 10 de Febrero Temática: Los trabajos deberán ser originales y se basarán en el tema “LOS NIÑOS SOLDADO” Técnica: LIBRE Formatos: DIN-A2 CARTULINA Página: 42 x 59,4 cm Devolución de los trabajos no premiados: Podrán ser recogidos en el IES donde se haya concursado.

Image and Perception

Image and Perception

Do not forget!

• Task 1: Find in the magazines in the classroom 4 images of the different finalities we have studied. Cut them out and glue in a piece of paper.
• Task 2: Manipulating an image. Find a large photograph you like: a favourite musician, car, landscape... Cut your picture into horizontal or vertical strips. Make the strips as wide as you like. Create a feeling of distortion by guing the strips onto the space provided, using a certain order you have previously decided. For example, light to dark, different heights, every third strip upside down, etc. Although it is a simple activity, it can have interesting results if you first think about what effect you wish to create.

Discovering the SYMMETRY

You have been given one Halloween character to complete the missing part. You can not trace it, nor measure more than 4 or 5 points in order to get the mirror image.

Symmetrical hanging

Halloween's Vocabulary

• Halloween's vocabulary 1.
• Halloween's vocabulary 2.
• Halloween's vocabulary 3 activity.
• Halloween's vocabulary 4 activity.
• Skeleton's vocabulary:

Imaginary people and animals

Let's see how creative you are.
First of all you have to find out the meaning of these words and add them to your vocabulary list:

• abominable snowman
• android
• dragon
• Martian
• mermaid
• nessie
• ogre
• phoenix
• robot
• snowman
• sphinx
• ghost
• unicorn
• vampire
• werewolf

Afterwards, you will have to choose two of them and create a story to be painted in a sheet of paper (A4). You can choose the techniques you feel are most appropriate for the task (free style techniques).

Last but not least, you will have to explain your drawing on the back page (of course, in English).

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon.

Initial medley. Your names.

This is a task I like doing when we begin a new course. It let me meet you, know your names and, by the way, we work with a "popurrí" of items which we are going to work with along the next nine months.

I realize you don't understand very well what your are doing now. Don't worry. We will hang them in our cork and we will have good references for the different topics we are going to deal with such as technical drawing (parallelism, perpendicularity, tales), image, colours, textures, visual elements, design process, sketches...

You will see your drawings published in this blog very soon....  Here they are.